Cranky are we?
Mon, Sept 19, 8:02 PM
Didn’t sleep well last night Con snores so loudly
Mon, Sept 19, 8:02 PM
So that’s why I missed you this morning?
Mon, Sept 19, 8:04 PM
Once he left I slept half the morning
Mon, Sept 19, 8:05 PM
Can’t say I enjoy image of you sleeping with him.
Mon, Sept 19, 8:05 PM
Well it’s his house don’t be healing
Mon, Sept 19, 8:06 PM
LOL don’t be JEALOUS damn autocorrect bye for now
That... doesn’t make sense.
“Doesn’t make sense,” says Andy. “On September nineteenth, Lauren’s complaining that the night before, Conrad was snoring so loud she couldn’t sleep. Conrad swears to us he wasn’t anywhere near Lauren after September eleventh. And I can’t see him lying about that. I mean, we can check that very easily. Conrad would have to be an idiot to lie about that so specifically.”
“Agreed,” Jane whispers. “Conrad’s not lying.Laurenis, to her secret boyfriend.”
“But why?” Andy asks. “Why would Lauren be lying to her guy on the side?”
“And if she lied to him about that,” says Jane, “what else did she lie about?”
BEFORE HALLOWEEN
October
41
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
This could be trouble, this problem. What am I going to do?
It matters a lot to me, Lauren. I can’t do that to Vicky. I can tell her, yes. I can tell her tonight, when she gets home, that I’ve met you, that I’m going to get a divorce and marry you. But I can’t file for divorce before November 3. I can’t file before our tenth anniversary. If I do, she’ll be cut off from the trust money.
I told you that, all of that. “I’ll tell Vicky tonight,” I said. “I’ll move out of the house and get another place. We can move in together right now. I just can’t file for divorce yet. It’s less than a month away. What difference does a month make?”
“She has no right to that money,” you said. “You inherited it from your father. It’s your money. She doesn’t deserve it.”
“‘Deserve it’? We’ve been married for almost ten years.”
“And why do you think that is?” you said. “Do you not see it, Simon?”
I didn’t catch your meaning. Or maybe I didn’t want to.
You paused, like you were searching for words. Then you breathed out like you were done sugarcoating it.